Voters approved a measure Tuesday curtailing...

VOTING DAY.

April 4, 1990

- MADISON, WIS. — VOTING DAY. Voters approved a measure Tuesday curtailing the governor's power to exercise a letter-by-letter, ''Vanna White'' veto that had allowed him to virtually rewrite legislation. With two-thirds of the votes counted, the constitutional amendment to prohibit the governor from using his veto to strike letters from words in appropriations bill was favored by 62 percent, with 38 percent opposed. Governors can still strike words, numerals or entire sentences. Wisconsin state Rep. Jim Holperin defeated Republican challenger Brian Sherren by nearly a 2-1 margin in a recall election stemming from a sometimes violent dispute over Indians' rights to hunt, fish and cut timber outside their reservations. Kansas City, Mo., voters rejected a curbside recycling program that would have cost households $1.89 a month, and in St. Louis, voters approved a 3.5 percent hotel-motel tax increase to help fund a 70,000-seat, domed stadium.